Russell T Davies: #MeToo movement has barely touched the surface

Efforts to tackle sexual harassment have “barely touched the surface of what men do at work”, former Doctor Who supremo Russell T Davies has said.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Davies, who was responsible for Doctor Who’s successful 2005 return, claimed movements such as #MeToo have not yet started talking about men’s “anger and violence”.

Davies told the newspaper: “If you think #MeToo is a turning point, think again. We have barely touched the surface of what men do at work.

Despite the #MeToo movement, we have “barely touched the surface of what men do at work”, according to Russell T Davies (Ian West/PA)

“We have only really talked about sexual advances – we haven’t talked about anger and violence.”

Davies was discussing his latest BBC dramatisation, A Very English Scandal, which tells the story of disgraced Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe, played by Hugh Grant.

Grant’s character embarks on a relationship with a much younger man, Norman Scott, played by Ben Whishaw, in the early 1960s.

Based on John Preston’s book of the same name, it follows the rise and fall of closeted Thorpe’s political career as he faces trial for conspiring to murder Scott.